"Dunham married Lolo Soetoro, a Javanese surveyor from Indonesia who was a graduate student in Hawaii. The family moved to Jakarta. When Obama was ten, he returned to Hawaii under the care of his maternal grandparents (and later his mother) for the better educational opportunities available there. He was enrolled in the fifth grade at Punahou School, a private college-preparatory school, where he was one of six black students. Obama attended Punahou School from the 5th grade until his graduation from the 12th grade, in 1979. Obama writes: ""For my grandparents, my admission into Punahou Academy heralded the start of"
"involve bullets or soldiers, it has an unimaginable impact on the development of a nation. Wang Huiyao contends that a country's ability to develop and then retain its talent, will determine its future in the 21st century. Dreams from My Father is a memoir by the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. It was first published in 1995 after Obama was elected the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, before his political career began. The CCG translated this book into Chinese and since then this copy of Obama's autobiography has sold over 250,000 copies in China."
"political memoir biography. ... It's unique. It's his. There are no other ones like that."" In an interview for ""The Daily Beast,"" the author Philip Roth said he had read ""Dreams from My Father"" ""with great interests,"" and commented that he had found it ""well done and very persuasive and memorable."" The book ""may be the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician,"" wrote ""Time"" columnist Joe Klein. In 2008, ""The Guardian""'s Rob Woodard wrote that ""Dreams from My Father"" ""is easily the most honest, daring, and ambitious volume put out by a major US politician in the last"
"developing the teaching of Computer Science and programming to students in the Humanities. In 2012 he championed a new degree in Computer Science and Philosophy at Oxford University (see Degrees of the University of Oxford). To encourage students in the Humanities to get involved in Computing, Millican has developed a number of user-friendly software teaching systems. In 2008 and 2009, some Republican commentators advanced claims that US President Barack Obama's autobiography, ""Dreams from My Father"" was written or ghost-written by Bill Ayers. In a series of articles in American Thinker and WorldNetDaily, author Jack Cashill claimed that his own analysis"
"in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005, calling it ""the quintessential American picaresque of the 20th century"", rather than a ""race novel, or even a bildungsroman"". Malcolm Bradbury and Richard Ruland recognize an existential vision with a ""Kafka-like absurdity"". According to ""The New York Times"", former U.S. president Barack Obama modeled his memoir ""Dreams from My Father"" on Ellison's novel. Ellison says in his introduction to the 30th Anniversary Edition that he started to write what would eventually become Invisible Man in a barn in Waitsfield, Vermont in the summer of 1945 while on sick leave"
"program devised by Doug Lenat. Loui organized the first Harvard internet alumni club and built a citation-based search engine (for legal opinions) in the early 1990s. He earned his Ph.D. under Henry E. Kyburg, and spent postdoctoral time at Stanford under Patrick Suppes and Amos Tversky. Professor Loui supervised students in a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates program that produced several current professors of computing, and the author of the original Google search engine. Ronald Loui Ronald Prescott Loui is an American computer scientist and philosopher identified as ""Frederick"" in U.S. President Barack Obama's ""Dreams From My Father"""
"Ruth Stiles Gannett Ruth Stiles Gannett Kahn (born August 12, 1923) is an American children's writer best known for ""My Father's Dragon"" and its two sequels—collectively sometimes called the My Father's Dragon or the Elmer and the Dragons series or trilogy. Gannett graduated from City and Country School in Greenwich Village, New York City, in the class of 1937. There, she recalled in 2012, ""she benefited from being 'allowed and encouraged to write for fun' at certain times of the day"". She then attended Vassar College, graduating with a B.A. in chemistry in 1944. Gannett's first novel, ""My Father's Dragon"","
"Chrisman Gannett. Gannett introduced the 1991 Yearling edition of Edith Nesbit's collection ""The Book of Dragons"" (), later issued in the Looking Glass Library (2013, ). Ruth Stiles Gannett Ruth Stiles Gannett Kahn (born August 12, 1923) is an American children's writer best known for ""My Father's Dragon"" and its two sequels—collectively sometimes called the My Father's Dragon or the Elmer and the Dragons series or trilogy. Gannett graduated from City and Country School in Greenwich Village, New York City, in the class of 1937. There, she recalled in 2012, ""she benefited from being 'allowed and encouraged to write for"
"and edited their Web sites to that effect, shortly before he released his conspiracy theory film that year alleging to have found new information about President Barack Obama's father. Gilbert's ""Dreams from My Real Father"" (2012), alleged that United States President Barack Obama's ""real"" father was an American communist. It was strongly criticized for its many unsubstantiated allegations about President Obama's birth and background. ""Slate"" said that the film ""peddles a conspiracy theory so convoluted that more traditional birthers must be envious of its creativity"". Both Jerome Corsi and ""The Hollywood Reporter"" stated that the film makes unsubstantiated allegations that"
"distract you with smears rather than talk to you about substance. They'd rather try to tear our campaign down than lift this country up. That's what you do when you're out of touch, out of ideas, and running out of time."" In 2008 and 2009 some conservative commentators advanced claims that Obama's autobiography, ""Dreams from My Father"" was written or ghost-written by Ayers. In a series of articles in American Thinker and WorldNetDaily, author Jack Cashill claimed that his own analysis of the book showed Ayers' writing style. In late October, US Congressman Chris Cannon and his brother-in-law attempted to"
"an inspiration to readers around the world. Hers is a triumph of the Latino experience in America."" Sotomayor modeled her approach towards the memoir after Barack Obama's ""Dreams From My Father"". It was written by her speaking into a tape recorder and then using the services of Zara Houshmand, an Iranian-American poet, in doing the actual writing. The title comes from a line by José Gautier Benítez, a Puerto Rican poet of the Romantic era in the 19th century. In recounting her early life, Sotomayor describes growing up in a housing project in the Bronx to Puerto Rican emigrants. Her"
"in his own language in 1991. ""He evokes the continuity of dreaming from Grandfather and father to son and grandson, down the generations and across the passages of time; yet the insistence on the obligation to preserve and transmit his three jukurrpass attest to the corrosive possibility of secular change. He goes on to aver that the maintenance of Dreaming has to be really strict', so that his family will not lose it like paper, or throw it away or give it away to other families. ""My father's grandfather taught me first, and after a while my father taught me"
"worked as a librarian, an administrator in education, and Director of Resources in a large secondary college in the town of Bideford, North Devon, where he lives with his wife Judy, son Sam, and daughter Katia in an old blacksmith's forge. Adrian Cole (writer) Adrian Christopher Synnot Cole (born 22 July 1949 in Plymouth, England), is a British writer. He is known for his Dream Lords trilogy, the ""Omaran Saga"" and ""Star Requiem"" series, and his young adult novels, Moorstones and The Sleep of Giants. Adrian Cole was born in Plymouth, Devonshire in 1949. Cole's father was in the Army,"
"His unexpected landslide victory in the March 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate Democratic primary had made him overnight a rising star within the national Democratic Party, started speculation about a presidential future, and led to the reissue of his memoir, ""Dreams from My Father"". His keynote address, although not carried by the commercial broadcast television networks, was well received, which further elevated his status within the Democratic Party and led to his reissued memoir becoming a bestseller. As the keynote speaker, Obama set the tone for the party platform. His speech, proclaiming the unnecessary and artificial divides in American culture and"
"Barack Obama's greatest speeches selected and introduced by columnist E.J. Dionne and MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid was published by Bloomsbury Publishing. The keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention (DNC) was given by then Illinois State Senator, United States Senate candidate, and future President Barack Obama on the night of Tuesday, July 27, 2004. His unexpected landslide victory in the March 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate Democratic primary had made him overnight a rising star within the national Democratic Party, started speculation about a presidential future, and led to the reissue of his memoir, ""Dreams from My Father"". His convention"
"depression. The book was published by Scribner to strong reviews. In ""The New York Times"" Book Review, James Campbell described the book as “brilliant and shocking.” ""Reading My Father"" was nominated for the ""L.A. Times"" book award and long-listed for ""The New York Times"" bestseller list. Styron is a professor in the MFA Creative Writing program at Hunter College in New York City. Alexandra Styron Claire Alexandra Styron known as Alexandra Styron, is an American author and professor. Styron is the youngest child of author William Styron and poet and human rights activist Rose Burgunder. She grew up in Roxbury,"
"Dream Days Dream Days is a collection of children's fiction and reminiscences of childhood written by Kenneth Grahame. A sequel to the 1895 collection ""The Golden Age"" (some of its selections feature the same family of five children), ""Dream Days"" was first published in 1898 under the imprint John Lane: The Bodley Head. The first six selections in the book had been previously published in periodicals of the day – in ""The Yellow Book"" and the ""New Review"" in Britain and in ""Scribner's Magazine"" in the U.S. The book is best known for its inclusion of Grahame's classic story ""The"
"Alphabet of Dreams Alphabet of Dreams (2006) is a novel by an American novelist Susan Fletcher. It was first published on 22 August 2006. Young Babak has a magnificent gift: He can dream the future. Mitra, his brave older sister, is sworn to protect him. For them to survive living on the streets, she must do whatever is necessary—including using her brother's talent for profit. When Babak is asked to dream for a powerful Magus, he receives a mysterious vision of two stars dancing in the night. Determined to solve this prophetic riddle, the Magus takes the boy and his"
"Hervey de Saint Denys has begun to be known for his introspective studies on dreams. D'Hervey was also one of the earliest oneirologists (specialists in the study of dreams), and is nowadays regarded as ""The Father"" of modern lucid dreaming. In 1867 there appeared as an anonymous publication a book entitled ""Les rêves et les moyens de les diriger; observations pratiques"" (Translation: ""Dreams and the Ways to Direct Them: Practical Observations""). In a footnote on page 1 from the 1878-edition of Alfred Maury's work ""Le sommeil et les rêves"" D'Hervey de Saint-Denys was identified as the writer of it. Writers"
"at A Celebration of Women Writers. My Father's Dragon My Father's Dragon is a children's novel by Ruth Stiles Gannett, with illustrations by her mother Ruth Chrisman Gannett. The novel is about a young boy, Elmer Elevator, who runs away to Wild Island to rescue a baby dragon. Both a Newbery Honor Book and an ALA Notable Book, it is the first book of a trilogy whose other titles are ""Elmer and the Dragon"" and ""The Dragons of Blueland"". All three were published in a 50-year anniversary edition as ""Three Tales of My Father's Dragon"". It was made into an"
"Dreams from R'lyeh Dreams from R'lyeh is a collection of poems by Lin Carter. The book was released in hardcover by Arkham House in 1975 in an edition of 3,152 copies. It was Carter's only book published by Arkham House. The title sequence of sonnet, ""Dreams from R'lyeh"", has also been reprinted in Robert M. Price's """" (Chaosium, 1997). The Sonnet Cycle, ""Dreams from R'lyeh"", that comprises the first two-thirds of the book, consists of poems inspired by H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos. Unlike Lovecraft's ""Fungi from Yuggoth"", the sonnets of which do not tell a continuous story,"
"in partnership in the production of selected books enhanced for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The titles that have been released are: ""Dreams From My Father"", ""The Audacity of Hope"", ""The Death of Bunny Munro"" and ""The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ"". Alasdair Gray Charles Palliser Irvine Welsh Julian Assange The Mighty Boosh Noel Fielding (with Mighty Boosh member Dave Brown) Nick Cave David Eagleman Michel Faber Matt Haig Steven Hall Miranda July Yann Martel James Meek (author) Barack Obama Dizzee Rascal David Shrigley David Simon Martin C. Strong Scarlett Thomas Simon Tofield In which contemporary authors re-imagine"
"Mother Night Mother Night is a novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut, first published in February 1962. The title of the book is taken from Goethe's ""Faust"". It is the fictional memoirs of Howard W. Campbell Jr., an American, who moved to Germany in 1923 at age 11, and later became a well-known playwright and Nazi propagandist. The action of the novel is narrated (through the use of metafiction) by Campbell himself. The premise is that he is writing his memoirs while awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison. Howard W. Campbell also appears briefly in Vonnegut's later"
"and said that ""[...] with its magically engineered collection of fiction, history and fantasy, and particularly with its own capacious spirit, “Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings” doesn’t just knock Jefferson off his pedestal, it blows us over, too, shatters the whole sinner-saint debate and clears out new room to reconsider these two impossibly different people who once gave birth to the United States. It’s heartbreaking. It’s cathartic. It’s utterly brilliant."" Stephen O'Connor Stephen O’Connor (born May 21, 1952) is an American writer of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. His most recent novel ""Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings"" has been"
"Dotter of Her Father's Eyes Dotter of Her Father's Eyes is a 2012 graphic novel written by Mary M. Talbot with artwork by her husband, Bryan Talbot. It is part memoir, and part biography of Lucia Joyce, daughter of modernist writer James Joyce. Mary Talbot recounts her childhood in Preston, Lancashire, focussing upon her relationship with her father, Joycean scholar James S. Atherton. Talbot became a scholar herself, working in critical discourse analysis and publishing about language and gender. The book juxtaposes Talbot's childhood with Lucia Joyce's -- the daughter of James Joyce. Inspired by Carol Shloss’s 2003 biography of"
"My Father's Glory My Father's Glory () is a 1957 autobiographical novel by Marcel Pagnol. Its sequel is ""My Mother's Castle"". It is the first of four volumes in Pagnol's ""Souvenirs d'enfance"" series. It is also a 1990 film based on the novel, and directed by Yves Robert. A poetic novel about his family and his early years rather than a literal autobiography, Pagnol opens with the stories of his two parents, Joseph and Augustine, and his own arrival in 1895 as their first child in the little town of Aubagne among the mountains of Provence. A school teacher there,"
"Adrian Cole (writer) Adrian Christopher Synnot Cole (born 22 July 1949 in Plymouth, England), is a British writer. He is known for his Dream Lords trilogy, the ""Omaran Saga"" and ""Star Requiem"" series, and his young adult novels, Moorstones and The Sleep of Giants. Adrian Cole was born in Plymouth, Devonshire in 1949. Cole's father was in the Army, and Adrian spent three years with his family in Malaya when he was a young child, before settling back in Devon. He became interested in fantasy and science fiction at an early age, through ""Tarzan of the Apes"", ""King Solomon's Mines"","
"saw a proliferation of artists drawing their own dreams. In the collection, The Committee of Sleep, Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett identifies modern dream-inspired art such as paintings including Jasper Johns's ""Flag"", much of the work of Jim Dine and Salvador Dalí, novels ranging from ""Sophie's Choice"" to works by Anne Rice and Stephen King and films including Robert Altman's ""Three Women"", John Sayles ""Brother from Another Planet"" and Ingmar Bergman's ""Wild Strawberries"". That book also describes how Paul McCartney's ""Yesterday"" was heard by him in a dream and Most of Billy Joel's and Ladysmith Black Mambazo's music has originated in"
"Einstein's Dreams Einstein's Dreams is a 1992 novel by Alan Lightman that was an international bestseller and has been translated into thirty languages. It was runner up for the 1994 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. ""Einstein's Dreams"" was also the March 1998 selection for National Public Radio's ""Talk of the Nation"" Book Club. The novel has been used in numerous colleges and universities, in many cases for university-wide adoptions in ""common-book"" programs. ""Einstein's Dreams"" was first adapted for the stage by David Gardiner and Ralf Remshardt and performed at the University of Florida in 1996. An off-off-Broadway production of"
"his hard, muscular poetry."" Richard Guzman highlights Davis' poetry for its ""social engagement, especially in the fight against racism"" as well as its ""fluent language and stunning imagery."" Stacy I. Morgan states that in his work, Davis ""delighted in contradicting reader expectations"". Kathryn Waddell Takara said of Davis's political and literary legacy: Davis has been cited as being an influence on poet and publisher Dudley Randall. Through exposure provided by Randall, Stephen Henderson and Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs, Davis influenced the Black Arts Movement. In his 1995 memoir ""Dreams from My Father"", Barack Obama mentioned Frank, a friend in Hawaii"
"Alan Lightman Alan Paige Lightman is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur. He has served on the faculties of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is currently professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT. He is widely known as the author of the international bestseller ""Einstein's Dreams"". Einstein's Dreams has been adapted into dozens of independent theatrical productions and is one of the most widely used ""common books"" on college campuses. Lightman's novel The Diagnosis was a finalist for the National Book Award. Lightman was the first professor at MIT to receive a joint appointment"
"reviewed by W. N. MacPherson in ""The Science Fiction Review"", May 1975, Daniel Bailey in ""Myrddin"", August 1975, Stuart David Schiff in ""Whispers"" #6/7, June 1975, and #8, December 1975, Fritz Leiber in ""Fantastic"", May 1976, and C. D. Whateley in ""Crypt of Cthulhu"" #13, Roodmas 1983. Dreams from R'lyeh Dreams from R'lyeh is a collection of poems by Lin Carter. The book was released in hardcover by Arkham House in 1975 in an edition of 3,152 copies. It was Carter's only book published by Arkham House. The title sequence of sonnet, ""Dreams from R'lyeh"", has also been reprinted in"
"for DreamWorks Pictures. The book follows the lives of the six flag-raisers through their early lives of innocence, military training, fierce combat and afterward, when they were sent on tours to raise money for war bonds. The film adaptation ""Flags of Our Fathers"", which opened in the U.S. on October 20, 2006, was directed by Clint Eastwood and produced by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay written by William Broyles, Jr. and Paul Haggis. Flags of Our Fathers Flags of Our Fathers (2000) is a ""New York Times"" bestselling book by James Bradley with Ron Powers about the six United States"